Teaching disciplinary literacy to adolescents: Rethinking content-area literacy

Harvard Educational Review

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 40-59

  Shanahan, Timothy ^a   Shanahan, Cynthia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 41849125282     PISSN: 00178055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17763/haer.78.1.v62444321p602101     Document Type: Article

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